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Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Always Bleak Good Life Necessary Part Some Sometimes

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I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Afraid Always Comfortable Could Family Hate Hotel Imagined Just Live More Pressures Responsibilities Stranger

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I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Abroad Being Belong Born Common Experience Fact Films Foreigner In Fact Interested Know Link Maybe My Own Never Own People Think Very Well Where Who I Think

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Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Africa Continent March More Poor

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You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

~Claire Denis

Topics: About Ever France Legion Life Spend Thinking Whole Without You Your

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I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Agriculture Always Begun Civilisation Example For Example History Human Human History Landscape Live Over Perhaps Place Really Something Stronger Than Thought Where

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What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Even Group Idea Just Like People Solitude Two Two People Within

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I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Acquainted Actor Always Feel Film Films Further Get Gives Go Just Love Make Relationships Several Shooting Strong Time Together Very Work You

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When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Body Feel Film Making Never Never Stop Nothing Stop Touch Touching Work I Feel

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For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Always Been Deprived Film Hospitality Interested Keep Main Make Mind Motive People Reason Rights Society Some Stories Who

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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